They set up their first show at Culver City Skate Park. Kids stopped by for their punk fix as the band members blasted music through growling amps. That was 2010. The band has since signed with Mom + Pop Music, recorded its forthcoming self-titled debut album and toured with The Hives. And it all started with that impromptu jam session at the skate park.

Carper says FIDLAR’s gigs “usually get kinda kooky,” especially when it’s the headlining act. A riot broke out at one of its Los Angeles shows. The police intervened. The band’s show at Mojo’s on Nov. 14 takes FIDLAR from Cali to Columbia for the first time.

Mojo’s General Manager Josh Bowles thinks FIDLAR will attract a responsive crowd. “It’s party music, and people in Columbia love to party,” Bowles says. “Music that has that same kind of energy seems to do well here.”

FIDLAR loves to party, too. But the band members see their music as more than a party mix (though they will be selling personalized FIDLAR beer koozies at the show).

“The album shows a lot of different sides of us,” Carper says. “We have this image that I feel like portrays punk rock — loud aggressive music. But we also have some slow songs.”

The album’s tracks vary in pace and tone. Although FIDLAR fans fist pump and scream the lyrics of “Cheap Beer” (“I drink cheap beer, so what!”), songs like “Oh” sound like an aggressive Modest Mouse. Carper says many of the group’s influences come from rock bands such as Nirvana, Pixies and The Replacements.

Carper told Pitchfork.com in October, “Everybody’s going to be like, ‘Oh, there’s that party band.’ But if you listen to the lyrics, they’re f-----g dark.” But Carper doesn’t seem concerned about the band’s reception.

“We’re easy,” Carper says. “The bottom line is we don’t really care. We just do whatever we want."